Schedule

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Week 1 (Sept 18-22, 2006)
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10.30 Organisational Meeting (FR)
 10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT) "The Hubble Constant from Lens Time Delays" Fassnacht, Marshall, Moustakas, Suyu
10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT) Joint Working Group Discussion

12.30 Lunch Talk (SSR) "Lenses as Gravitational Telescopes" Andy Bunker





15.30 Colloquium (AUD) "Extinction Curves of Lensing Galaxies" Árdís Elíasdóttir


























Week 2 (Sept 25-29, 2006)

Mon
 Tue
 Wed
 Thu
 Fri



9:30-10:15 Exploring first light with lensing (courtyard) led by Andy Bunker
10:00 LCDM working group meeting (OT) 10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT) "Pixelized lens models" led by Leon Koopmans [astro-ph/0609542 reading recommended]
10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT) Joint Working Group Discussion
 10.30 - 12.00 BB Lecture on "Lensing Theory and Applications", (SSR, TBC), Joachim Wambsganss (of general interest)
 10.30 Coffee/Tea "Dark-Matter in Local Eliptical Galaxies" (OT) lead by Ortwin Gerhard and Magda Arnaboldi More info available at astro-ph/0502037
11:30 Cosmography Working group meeting (OT). Conveners: Chris Fassnacht and Sherry Suyu




12.30 Lunch Talk (SSR) "Strong & Weak Lensing United: Evidence for Dark Matter from the Bullet Cluster", (45min), Marusa Bradac (of general interest) 13.15 Discussion (SSR) on Alternative Gravity Theories (45min), led by Hong-Sheng Zhao (of general interest)
14.00 Black-Board Lecture PART II, on "Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies", Giuseppe Bertin (SSR, TBC; of general interest)
14:00 Baryons working group meeting (OT). Convener: Dennis Zaritsky


14:00 Baryons working group meeting (OT). Convener: Dennis Zaritsky


15.30 Black-Board Lecture PART I on "Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies", Giuseppe Bertin (SSR, TBC; of general interest)
 15.30 Special Student Colloquia Session; 2x(20+5) min (AUD). Matteo Barnabè (Combining Gravitational Lensing and Stellar Dynamics), Claudio Grillo (Strong lensing by a galaxy member of the distant cluster Cl J 0152.7-1357)





















Week 3 (Oct 2-6 2006)

Mon
 Tue
 Wed
 Thu
 Fri
9:30-10:15 Exploring first light with lensing (courtyard) led by Andy Bunker



11:30 Cosmography working group meeting -- Courtyard. Conveners: Fassnacht & Suyu
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12:15 Blackboard Lunch Talk. Peter Schneider








2:00 (L)CDM working group meeting (Courtyard). Convener: Moustakas





Week 4 (Oct 9-13 2006)

Mon
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10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT); Welcome new members
 11.30 Cosmography working group meeting -- Courtyard. Conveners: Fassnacht & Suyu
 10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT) |Joint Working Group Discussion
10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT)

12.30 Lunch Talk (SSR); Houjun Mo: Establishing the relationship between galaxies and dark matter halos



14.00 Dark Matter & Baryons working group meeting -- Courtyard. Convener: Dennis Zaritsky

14.00 Dark Matter & Baryons working group meeting -- Courtyard. Convener: Dennis Zaritsky



15.30 Colloquium (AUD). Raphael Gavazzi: Combining weak and strong lensing in SLACS lenses. & Lensing by Dark Matter caustics, from catastroph to catastroph.







Week 5 (Oct 16-20 2006)

Mon
 Tue
 Wed
 Thu
 Fri





10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT). Discussion on the present and future of clusters as graviational telescopes, led by Roser Pello'
10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT) Joint Working Group Discussion
 10.00 Cosmography working group meeting -- Courtyard. Convener: Suyu
 10.30 Colloquium (SSR) Andrey Kravtsov Effects of baryons on the mass distribution in groups and clusters: implications for lensing



11.00 Working group on c -- Courtyard. Convener: Priya

12.30 Lunch Talk (SSR); Masamune Oguri: "A Statistical Approach to Gravitational Lens Time Delays"


12:15 Blackboard Lunch Talk. Joe Polchinski: Cosmic Strings and Superstrings

15.30 Colloquium (AUD). Konrad Kuijken Lensing with KIDS











Week 6 (Oct 23-27 2006)

Mon
 Tue
 Wed
 Thu
 Fri





10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT). Led by Risa Wechsler.
10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT) Joint Working Group Discussion
10.30 Steve Allen (KIPAC)
12:15 Blackboard lunch talk (AUD). Michael Dine
 12.30 Lunch Talk "Constraining galaxy mass evolution using gravitational lensing" Eran Ofek (prelim.) (SSR)



14:00 Cosmography working group meeting -- Courtyard. Convener: Oguri
15.30 Colloquium. "Lighting up the Dark Universe: Modelling the distribution and properties of baryons in galaxy clusters." Daisuke Nagai. (AUD)
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Week 7 (Oct 30-Nov 4 2006)

Mon
 Tue
 Wed
 Thu
 Fri





10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT)
10.30 Coffee/Tea (SSR). Graham Smith. The Structure and Assembly History of Massive Galaxy Clusters
10.30 Coffee/Tea (OT)
12:15 Blackboard lunch talk (AUD). Matthias Steinmetz
 12.30 Lunch Talk (SSR). Jim Hartle. Testing General Relativity and MOND (talk and informal discussion to follow). OF GENERAL INTEREST





15.30 Colloquium (AUD). Sean Carroll "Beyond dark matter" OF GENERAL INTEREST













FR = Founders Room
SSR = Small Seminar Room
AUD = Auditorium
OT = Ocean Tower